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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

The New York Times bestselling author of Bless Her Dead Little
Heart and the Cats in the Stacks mysteries brings back the Ducote
sisters, two spry Southern sleuths.

An'gel and Dickce Ducote tend to stay put in Athena,
Mississippi, but a wedding is a good reason to say a
temporary
farewell to Charlie Harris's cat Diesel and go visit
relatives. But while their stay in Louisiana is scorching
hot,
the atmosphere at the wedding is downright cold, with
bride-
to-be Sondra Delevan putting her trust fund above little
things like love and loyalty.

When a violent storm supposedly sweeps Sondra off a
balcony to
her death, the sisters discover that many of the guests
attending the wedding had major reasons to object to
Sondra's
marriage. Now, it's up to An'gel and Dickce to use their
down-
home instincts to expose dubious alibis, silver-plated
secrets, and one relentless murderer who lives for "till
death
do us part."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Pseudonym for Jimmie Ruth Evans.Miranda James is the pseudonym of Dean James, a
seventh-generation Mississippian long transplanted to Texas.
A mystery fan since the age of ten, he wrote his first novel
at the ripe old age of twelve. The only copy of The
Mystery of the Willow Key vanished years ago, but since
it was highly derivative of the Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden
mystery series, that’s probably a good thing.

A medical librarian for nearly twenty years, Dean has
published articles on topics in library science, the history
of science/medicine, and mystery fiction. His first book,
which he co-wrote with fellow librarian Jean Swanson, was
By a Woman’s Hand (Berkley; 1994). Jean and
Dean won an Agatha Award for Best Mystery Non-Fiction and
were nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for the
Edgar for Best Critical-Biographical work for this popular
reference book. A second edition followed two years later,
and Dean and Jean collaborated on two further projects,
Killer Books (Berkley; 1998) and The Dick Francis
Companion (Berkley; 2003). In all he has co-authored or
co-edited six works of mystery reference and one short story
anthology. With Elizabeth Foxwell he wrote The Robert B.
Parker Companion (Berkley; 200).

His first novel, Cruel as the Grave (Silver Dagger
Mysteries) was published in 2000. Since then he has
published eighteen more novels, writing under his own name
and the pseudonyms Jimmie Ruth Evans and Honor Hartman. In
August 2010 he launched a new series writing as Miranda
James. The first book under this name, Murder Past
Due (Berkley Prime Crime; $7.99) spent four weeks on the
extended New York Times bestseller list for mass
market paperbacks. The next book in the series,
Classified as Murder (Berkley Prime Crime; $7.99),
published in May 2011, also hit the NYT list. The third
book, File M for Murder (Berkley Prime Crime; $7.99)
is out now. The fourth book, Out of Circulation
(Berkley Prime Crime; $7.99) debuted at no. 11 on the
bestseller list. Book five, The Silence of the Library
(Berkley Prime Crime; $7.99) is just out, and there are
more books to come in the series.

Dean lives with two young cats, thousands of books, and
thinks frequently about killing people — but only in
the pages of fiction.

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This sounds interesting - I have not yet started reading this series although I love the one with Diesel. Would love to get to know these two cats as they go to Louisiana. Also the bridezilla who mysteriously died. Looking forward to this!jeaniedannheim (at) ymail (dot) com